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About Maaden and the Opportunity

Maaden, established in 1997, is one of the fastest-growing mining companies globally and the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. The company is instrumental in developing the mining industry to become a key pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy by building a world-class, fully integrated mining value chain. We are seeking a Lead Specialist Data Product II to join our team in Riyadh.

Role Overview

The Lead Specialist Data Product II is responsible for designing and delivering high-quality solution-level data models and architecture artifacts. This role ensures the creation of consistent, governed, and performant data products by applying enterprise standards to delivery initiatives. The specialist will partner with engineering, governance, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into implementable models, providing advanced technical leadership within delivery squads to ensure modeling quality, integration readiness, and conformance to enterprise patterns across multiple projects and domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain logical and physical data models for analytics, integration, and reporting use cases, aligned with enterprise standards and naming conventions.
• Translate business requirements into consistent entities, attributes, and relationships, ensuring definitions align with the business glossary and stewardship ownership.
• Develop dimensional models and curated layer schemas that support performant analytics and standardized KPIs.
• Define mappings and transformation rules from source systems to curated layers, ensuring traceability, lineage, and reconciliation requirements are met.
• Participate in solution design reviews, identifying modeling risks and recommending mitigation strategies (data quality, master/reference data, performance, historization).
• Support data engineers with model-driven implementation guidance and validate that physical implementations align with approved designs.
• Contribute reusable templates, reference models, and design patterns to accelerate delivery and standardize outputs.
• Collaborate with governance teams to ensure metadata completeness, catalog registration, and data quality checks are embedded in delivery.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum Qualification:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum Experience:
  • 8–12 years of experience in data modeling and solution architecture within enterprise analytics environments.
  • Hands-on experience delivering models for modern cloud data platforms and supporting implementation throughout production.

Essential Skills and Core Competencies

• Skills:
  • Strong data modeling capabilities (logical/physical, dimensional) and ability to document and communicate designs clearly.
  • Understanding of data quality, lineage, metadata, and governance requirements for enterprise data products.
  • Ability to work across engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to resolve definition and integration challenges.
  • Experience with modeling tools and SQL; familiarity with cloud data platform design considerations.
  • Strong analytical thinking and ability to troubleshoot modeling and integration defects.
• Maaden High Performance Competencies:
  • Ownership & Accountability: Takes end-to-end ownership for delivery and outcomes.
  • Collaboration: Works effectively across engineering, governance, and business teams.
  • Execution Excellence: Delivers robust solutions with strong quality and reliability.
  • Continuous Improvement: Improves performance, cost, and operability over time.
  • Impact & Influence: Guides teams and vendors through technical leadership.

Work Location and Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.